Winners for this year’s 33rd annual Laurence Olivier Awards, London’s equivalent of the Tonys and the UK’s most prestigious stage awards, are announced from 6.30 this evening at a star-studded ceremony held at the Grosvenor […]
Brian Friel has turned eighty this year and he was at the Old Vic on opening night to see this glorious revival by Anna Mackmin of what is certainly one of his very best plays, […]
Within the next year or so, there should be not one, but two new musicals based on Whoopi Goldberg films in the West End. Following Sister Act, which opens at the London Palladium this June […]
Dames Judi Dench and Helen Mirren, and Gillian Anderson, are named on a list of the UK’s 20 most powerful women in theatre. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7926245.stm
Actor Julia Watson and Poet David Harsent judge competition London, 5 March 2009 – Girls from the Falcons School for Girls in London compared their recitation skills in a poetry competition in their school on […]
George Orwell’s 1984 and Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace are among the books people are most likely to have lied about reading, according to a poll. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7925720.stm
Shadow Forest by author Matt Haig has been named book of the year at the Blue Peter Book Awards. Full published article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/7924517.stm
Most of the new voices emerging from the Royal Court's Young Writers' Programme are those of the inner city, so Norfolk-born Molly Davies's first new play – which I saw in an earlier draft in […]
Playwright Peter Flannery must have watched the outstanding 1994 Oscar-winning Russian movie Burnt by the Sun and noted how the action covers one day, how many of the scenes have a theatrical quality of dialogue […]
The Gate Theatre is celebrating its 30th anniversary with a season entitled Generation Gate, which aims to “honour the theatre’s prestigious past by pushing forward its international reputation for producing bold, eclectic and innovative … […]
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